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Missile Defense

Technology has always found its greatest consumer in a nation's war and defense efforts. Since the last attempts at a "Star Wars" defense system, has technology changed considerably enough to make the latest Missile Defense initiatives more successful? Can such an application of science be successful? Is a militarized space inevitable, necessary or impossible?

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bbbuck - 01:02pm Sep 25, 2003 EST (# 13969 of 14001)

First of all let me welcome back lchic, who is as, uh, well as lchickie as usual.

And if you're riding by yourself on the subway in nyc, late at night, between 125 and 116, you might want to carry a gun. [though I think that's a felony in ny]

1 stabbed to death, 1 critically wounded.

http://www.newsday.com/news/local/newyork/ny-nysubway0925,0,1844391.story?coll=ny-nynews-headlines

What if Seurat had connected his dots, what then?

AWOTD(art work of the day)

The Temptation of St. Anthony (1946) by Salvador Dali

mazza9 - 05:53pm Sep 25, 2003 EST (# 13970 of 14001)
"Quae cum ita sunt" Caesar's Gallic Commentaries

We can only hope that like Porky Pig, RShow's finals six posts will be:

"Th Th Th That's All Folks!"

I wait for that d d d d d day! Mind you I performed this all in one post!

lchic - 08:41pm Sep 25, 2003 EST (# 13971 of 14001)
~~~~ It got understood and exposed ~~~~

Remember the 'good old days' when East West each had their RED phone

How much 'science' is there in NOT pressing a button?

Had the buttons of mutual destruction been pressed

There wouldn't have been a world of science

or 'known to man' science in the world

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With advances in technology 'systems' have to be upgraded and re-designed to ensure security and safety.

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As MD's have spread through marginal nations (together with 'red' phones) there is an ever present threat of the maginalisation of the 'World of Science'

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Raises the question of the role of effective politics and communication --- to STOP our ultimate destruction through 'science' .... too much 'science' wrt this is surely a bad thing ... a final solution.

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Science has it's place.

But not isolated from 'The Arts'

The pen

The sword

The pen

Which is mightier?

lchic - 09:27pm Sep 25, 2003 EST (# 13972 of 14001)
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'The ART of war'

is a more familiar term than

'The SCIENCE of war'

Why so?

lchic - 09:41pm Sep 25, 2003 EST (# 13973 of 14001)
~~~~ It got understood and exposed ~~~~

Instruments of war

are produced by the Scientific Method

are an 'art' form

may be ideology

may be 'failure' of insitu systems

when not upgraded or degraded

an art or a science?

an art or a science?

lchic - 09:46pm Sep 25, 2003 EST (# 13974 of 14001)
~~~~ It got understood and exposed ~~~~

Truth Lies and Pilger

http://www.johnpilger.com/

lchic - 09:48pm Sep 25, 2003 EST (# 13975 of 14001)
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a former senior CIA official tells Pilger that the whole issue of weapons of mass destruction was "95 per cent charade".

cantabb - 09:56pm Sep 25, 2003 EST (# 13976 of 14001)

mazza9 - 05:53pm Sep 25, 2003 EST (# 13970 of 13975)

Mind you I performed this all in one post!

Wow !

I like the way you 'performed' all this !

Others are busy making my point.

Nice job, folks.

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